Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) offers a variety of remedies to common networking challenges with multi-cloud support, enhanced security, and traffic optimization. Enterprises are increasingly implementing this technology, but there are decisions to be made about how to best execute SD-WAN deployment. Some aspects of SD-WAN are universal, such as its ability to merge numerous WAN connections into a single virtual overlay, but it also allows enterprises to reduce WAN costs by … [Read more...]
Three Tips for Evaluating Managed SD-WAN Services
The pressures on the network are growing increasingly as companies access cloud tools with significant data volume moving between the user and the cloud solution. Therefore, the network is taking on a more central role, driving business objectives. And as enterprises embrace digital transformation, investing in network infrastructure has become a priority. For example, when these cloud tools go wrong and you have a lot of business material at stake, you would need cloud disaster recovery … [Read more...]
Using Internal SLAs to Understand Necessary SD-WAN Services
A service level agreement (SLA) is a commercial document that helps enterprises better understand the support, management, and maintenance they’ll receive from a technology provider. They tend to be somewhat high level and may not provide much detail about what you expect. When it comes to software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) services, an internal SLA may help define your needs. An internal SLA is a documentation of a set of parameters specific to a line of business. It may include … [Read more...]
CIO Review Features Wanify’s Flexible SD-WAN Solution
Wanify was featured in a piece published by the CIO Review – a leading print magazine that provides analysis and insights into IT trends – titled “Wanify: Flexible SD-WAN. Personalized Customer Service”. The piece highlights our superior customer-centric SD-WAN solution and unique approach in the market by being carrier-agnostic. The article sheds light on Wanify’s customer-centric offerings, success, continual growth, and unique solutions that ring true to the company's values. Wanify … [Read more...]
New Demands for SD-WAN to Support a More Agile Enterprise IT
Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) has been essential in supporting the efforts of enterprises seeking to be more responsive to customers and offering them a personalized experience. As this focus envelops the entire value chain, organizations are seeking new ways for technology to improve agility at an affordable cost, all in the name of cultivating better customer experiences. Digital transformation has wide-ranging influence but it may be best felt in application development. … [Read more...]
The Perfect Pairing of Cloud and SD-WAN
The emergence of cloud technology as the disrupter of the last decade continues as more enterprises embrace its benefits. Cloud has benefitted many businesses for its many applications made for the smooth-running of companies. Just one example of the Cloud's benefits is its merge with Sharepoint; its functional components, which you can click here to learn more about, can help businesses run well. As the network became more complex in response to cloud migration, software-defined wide-area … [Read more...]
SD-WAN Connectivity in a Multi-Cloud Environment
A multi-cloud environment is defined by at least two Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) components, but for most enterprises, it's usually more complicated. They likely have on-premise systems and additional cloud-based resources they're accessing. Because multi-cloud is becoming a common setting in enterprise IT software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN), connectivity is adjusting to meet demands for multi-cloud specific needs. Enterprises run a variety of public and private cloud and … [Read more...]
Evaluating Managed SD-WAN versus SD-WAN as a Service
Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) is increasingly part of the discussion as enterprises seek to solve the challenges of a more complex network. Increased data flow, security threats and geographical disparity of branch locations make traditional networking inadequate for today’s business environment. You may be considering SD-WAN, and wondering what the differences are between managed SD-WAN service and SD-WAN as a service. SD-WAN offers enterprises the ability to segment network … [Read more...]
How SD-WAN is Mobilizing Cloud Services Adoption
Cloud solutions are becoming the go-to consideration when enterprises like yours begin to problem-solve. Whether it's a productivity problem, a desire to cut costs or an opportunity to enhance customer experience, a cloud-based application can often fill a need. What's powering those transformations is the implementation of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). SD-WAN offers what network architects have wanted for years: the ability to separate the control plane from the data plane … [Read more...]
Include SD-WAN in Your Network Infrastructure Upgrade
Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) is gaining traction as more and more enterprises deploy the tool for managing heavy network traffic. In response to multiplying endpoints and the challenge of managing branch locations and their connectivity needs, many in IT find that SD-WAN is a necessary network infrastructure upgrade. That's also when enterprises are most likely to add SD-WAN. An upgrade is the right framework for a tool that reduces the amount of time that staff must be … [Read more...]